A Medical Device Gateway Data Standard?

The Wipro OEM medical device gateway press release makes it all seem so easy (my highlight):

The device, consisting of interfaces that can feed-in data such as blood pressure, pulse rate, ECG reading and weight from the respective devices, is connected to the gateway that would format it into standard patient information and transmit it to either public health data platform such as Google Health or to private platforms like Microsoft Health Vault.

What exactly is "standard patient information"?  Maybe they've finally developed the magic interoperability bullet.  Yeah, right!  I'm sure companies like Capsule see these kind of claims all the time.  Statements like these are unfortunate because they give the impression that health data interoperability is a given. Of course we know that is not the case.

Also, since when is Google Health a public health data platform?

Hat tip: Avantrasara

UPDATE (11/19/09):  Wipro ties up with Intel for rural medical solutions

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One Response to “A Medical Device Gateway Data Standard?”

  1. Tim says:

    I had the ‘pleasure’ of modifying an application that had been built or heavily modified (it was unclear which) by wipro. Scariest piece of work I’d ever touched. Complete spaghetti and classes filled with nothing but static methods. It was work they did in the late 90’s so I’m sure they improved since then… I can still hear the former project manager saying ‘Have you thought about throwing it all out and starting over?’

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